Failed wireless connection

Posted by: Kate J.27 Sep 2011 @ 09:30

Failed wireless connection

Hello, I'm hoping someone may be able to help. My wireless connection keeps failing on my MacBook Pro. Currently I'm connected via an ethernet cable which works fine, but ties me to one place. I've tried the diagnostic solving through Safari Help. Tried connecting through System Prefs, but the connection fails all the time. Often it says Airport is on and my network name is ticked, but then nothing. I've emptied my Safari cache too. I'm at a loss for what to do now. Any ideas?

Hi again. Sorted out the rush jobs so tried your suggestions.Went to 'keychain access', but my wireless name wasn't even in there - could this be the problem?Also tried the second suggestion, but the three files (a, b + c) were also missing.I have no idea whether I have a Thomson router. I've had my Mac since Nov 2009. It's a MacBookPro 5,3 runs on Mac OSX 10.6.8 and Safari v 5.1 . I've not had any extras fitted to it internally or use any dongles, or that sort of thing.Can you shed any light? Thanks, Kate.

The router is the box with all the lights, plugged into the phone network and provided by the internet company .... if its a Thomson one it'll have that printed on it

Going back to the problem , either the networking configuration setup has changed in later releases of OSX, or theres something strange going on.Anyone else any ideas? - this is beyond my expertise. Richard? Wim?

unless Richard has any more ideas, I think we've hit the buffers in trying to diagnose this through this forumTwo choices really - try Apple's own user forums athttps://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa

Or else raise a job request for one of our team to come and visit you - see http://www.pciq.com

If there are files in this folders with the same name but additional .orig at the end, delete them too.It is possible that not all files are on your system. That will be ok.The files will get newly created by system on reboot. Reboot the machine. Join your wireless again....

It's not dissimilar to what you said, I think there's an extra file included. However, this has worked for me.

So ultimately, I thank you for pointing me in the right direction and getting my problem sorted. Kate